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Clinical trial demonstrates safety and effectiveness of oral drug to treat NASH

Patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, a chronic liver disease and a leading cause for liver transplantation in the U.S., currently lack an approved drug therapy, but this may soon change.

6 Dec 2019

Black mothers get less treatment for postpartum depression than other moms

Portia Smith’s most vivid memories of her daughter’s first year are of tears. Not the baby’s. Her own.

6 Dec 2019

Isansys Lifecare announces partnership with WH Tech in Australia

Isansys Lifecare, a global digital health technology company, is delighted to announce its partnership with WH Tech Pty Ltd, Australia’s leading importer of wearable connected healthcare.

6 Dec 2019

Mologic starts major clinical trial to validate point-of-care COPD exacerbation alert system

Mologic Ltd, a leading developer of lateral flow and rapid diagnostic technologies, today announced that it has started a major clinical trial to validate the Company’s urine-based multi-biomarker self-test, Headstart, for the early detection of exacerbations in patients living with moderate to severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease .

6 Dec 2019

$Novel agent opens up new treatment option for patients with refractory myeloma$

Novel agent opens up new treatment option for patients with refractory myeloma

A novel agent called Selinexor has opened up new options for the treatment of patients with refractory myeloma. This was the conclusion of a major international clinical trial in which also the Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences in Krems, Austria participated.

6 Dec 2019

Researchers confirm two new prognostic markers for triple negative breast cancer

Physicians who treat patients with triple negative breast cancer have two new ways to predict which patients may benefit most from the well-established post-surgery treatment known as AC chemotherapy, short for adjuvant doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide.

5 Dec 2019

Preoperative rehabilitation program for older adults leads to better outcomes

Older adults who "train" for a major operation by exercising, eating a healthy diet, and practicing stress reduction techniques preoperatively have shorter hospital stays and are more likely to return to their own homes afterward rather than another facility, compared with similar patients who do not participate in preoperative rehabilitation, according to research findings.

5 Dec 2019

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: We spend how much on health care?

Health spending in the U.S. grew to $3.6 trillion in 2018, according to a new report from the federal government. The rate of growth — 4.6% — was up slightly from 2017's 4.2%, despite the fact that nearly a million more Americans lacked insurance.

5 Dec 2019

Typhoid conjugate vaccine proves its worth in the field

A new typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) that has been approved by the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety has proved extremely effective in both young children and adults in a high-endemicity area for the first time. With almost 82% of recipients showing protection against typhoid, the vaccine promises to help control this deadly disease that claims up to 160,000 of its 11 million victims each year.

5 Dec 2019

A 'once a month' birth control pill

Birth control pills in their present form need to be taken once a day each day for the whole menstrual cycle. Other options such as Intra-Uterine devices (IUDs) or implanted progesterone offer a longer coverage, but most women prefer the pills due to their reliability and cheaper, easier and safer usage profile.

5 Dec 2019

New study examines link between sugars and cardiovascular disease

The impact of sugars on heart health depends on the dose and type of sugar consumed, suggests a new study led by researchers at St. Michael's Hospital.

5 Dec 2019

No differences found in survival, acute rejection in patients receiving lungs from increased-risk donors

Cleveland Clinic researchers have found that using lungs from donors who are considered high risk for certain infectious diseases compared to standard risk donors results in similar one-year survival for recipients. In addition, researchers saw no difference in rejection or graft (donor lung) survival after one year in patients receiving lungs from increased-risk donors.

5 Dec 2019

Mount Sinai receives $1 million grant to advance understanding of prostate cancer

The Milton and Carroll Petrie Department of Urology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has received a $1 million grant from The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation.

5 Dec 2019

Young patients with IBD have increased risk of severe viral infections

Young patients with inflammatory bowel disease are five times more likely than the general population to develop viral infections that can lead to hospitalization or permanent organ damage, a new study published in the UEG Journal has found.

5 Dec 2019

New Swiss initiative aims to widen access to groundbreaking neurotechnology

NeuroRestore is a new Center set up by the Defitech Foundation, Lausanne University Hospital, the University of Lausanne's Faculty of Biology and Medicine, and EPFL to harness expertise in neurorehabilitation and neurosurgical implant technologies across the four partner institutions.

5 Dec 2019

Discovery of protein function opens door to potential therapies for addiction, behavioral disorders

The human brain consists of several intricate networks or "circuits." One such complex circuit, called the "reward circuit," is involved in reward-associated learning, a process in which nerve cell activity changes in response to a "reward" stimulus (something that the brain perceives as a reward).

5 Dec 2019

Exposure to extreme environmental conditions can affect the human brain

Members of a polar research expedition have provided researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development with an opportunity to study the effects of social isolation and extreme environmental conditions on the human brain. The researchers found changes to the dentate gyrus, an area of the hippocampus responsible for spatial thinking and memory.

5 Dec 2019